Cynthia Nixon Leads AQE Video Campaign Against School Cuts

Cynthia Nixon, best know as Miranda Hobbes on “Sex and the City,” cut this video for the Alliance For Quality Education to kick off its video contest where people can send in videos about the impact Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $1.5 billion budget cut to schools would have on education.

“The video contest provides an opportunity for students, parents and teachers to let Governor Cuomo know the educational consequences of his dramatic school cuts,” said Billy Easton, the group’s executive director. “Yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll shows that 76% of New Yorkers oppose these cuts, meanwhile several polls show that two-thirds to three quarters of New Yorkers don’t want to see the Governor cut taxes for the wealthy.”

Nixon, a product of New York City schools, has been involved in New York politics before, most recently lobbying state lawmakers in Albany to support same-sex marriage in New York, which failed in the Senate in 2009.

The video contest offers “prizes of iPads for students or $1,000 donations to classrooms our youth organizations to the winners,” AQE said in its release. Contest submissions are due March 8, and winners will be announced in mid-March.